Humankind has been nominated at “Ther Game Awards” in the category of “Best Sim / Strategy”. It faces a fierce contender, Age Of Empires IV, so we encourage everyone to give their vote to Humankind.
You can vote here: https://thegameawards.com/nominees/best-sim-strategy
Discuss this nomination in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/humankind-nominated-for-best-sim-strategy-at-the-the-game-awards.674187/
And it’s again time for the “Game Of The Month”. Compete with all the other CivFanatics in who’s best at civ-ing!
This time you start as Byzanz with Basil II on a huge true-starting-locations earth map on deity level. You have until December 15 to finish this game.
For all the other details of this game, please have a look here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm123-announcement.674143/
Our friend and steamer TheCivShow has organized together with other known Civ streamers (Boesthius, VanBradley, Peppermint_Butler, OnSpotTV, Foybles, 100games100days, and 3 more to be announced) the CivGive2021: It is a charity event to raise money for local Sick Kids hospitals and the Children’s Miracle Network. The goal is to raise $50.000, and the event will culminate with a streamed 10 player FFA of the people on the roster on December 19.
We from CivFanatics have already contributed, and we hope you will to! You can find the donations page here https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.team&teamID=58881 . For some of the streamers you will get some small perks with the donation for the final stream too (besides simply feeling good because you did a good deed ;)).
You can also discuss this event in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-thecivgive2021-extra-life-charity-event-has-been-announced-50-000-goal-to-sick-kids-hospitals.674123/
Our user blake00 has released another video to celebrate the history of Civilization! After he showed us how to play the original Colonization in HD, he has now dug deeper into this classic. He investigated how it would be possible to play as the Natives, which took some long effort to find all the necessary information. At the end it is not as interesting as playing as the Barbarians in Civ, and mostly results in errors, but the video is nevertheless nice to watch for anyone with an interest in the old Sid Meier titles.
You can discuss his video here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-video-series-ep-02-colonization-hd-tour.673998/#post-16184061
As the title says, there is currently a sale at Green Man Gaming for Civ6. The base game costs you only 8.55€!
You can find this offer here: https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/
The reddit user “7 days ago” has created lots of plots, infrastructure and wonders from Civ6 in Minecraft. If you wonder what everything is, join us here in the discussion: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/redditor-makes-civ-6-infrastructure-on-mini-plots-in-minecraft-help-me-identify-them.674094/
You can find the original thread on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/qmj4pq/i_made_various_civ_6_infrastructure_on_miniplots/
The GOTM team has again created a new challenging game for you. Can you show us this month that you’re the best of the best? Make your empire great again!
This month you play as Maria of Portugal on a standard size Archipelago map on Prince level. You have until December 3 to finish this game.
For all details please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/news-tsg210-announcement.673997/
Christopher Tin has released the video for his song “I Lift My Eyes” from the Old World soundtrack.
At the same time, Mohawk Games, the developer of Old World, has also produced a podcast for this occasion, where they talk with Christopher about the making of the soundtrack. You can find the podcast here: https://mohawkgames.com/podcasts/old-world-soundtrack-christopher-tin/
As a part of this, there is also this presentation by Meena Shamlay, consultant and performer for the Old World soundtrack, talking about Middle Eastern music in games, also interviewing Christopher Tin:
Discuss these videos, the soundtrack, Old World, and anything else in this thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/video-to-christoper-tins-i-lift-my-eyes-from-the-old-world-soundtrack.674019/